Sentence examples for connotation of the phrase from inspiring English sources

Some scholars have even maintained that the primary connotation of the phrase "born of the Virgin Mary" in the Apostles' Creed was this same insistence by the church upon the authentic manhood of Jesus.

The sexual connotation of the phrase was definitely not an accident.

The title of the episode is a play on words, referring both to the introduction of the eleventh Doctor and to the fact that he was nearly too late, the connotation of the phrase.

His faith shines through every note of his music - in his wonder at every tiny yet monumental scrap of human endeavour, and in his ultimate (if at times shaky) acceptance of a celestial Big Plan that will rid us of what he has described as 'all the nonsense of suffering' - but it's as far removed from 'Christian rock', with all the deadly dull connotations of that phrase, as it's possible to be.

Today, it undeniably is, but not in the schoolbook sense of the phrase, with its connotation of two tidily opposed sides — Yanks and Rebs squaring off at Antietam.

In its more modest connotation, the phrase simply means to keep going.

His comments about Mr Fabius, he insisted, "had no religious connotation"; the phrase was common in French.

The Globe And Mail notes that "Other possible translations of the phrase lack the homophobic connotation, but are nevertheless offensive".

She was told to change into a different shirt, as school administrators thought the use of the phrase "the hell" encouraged a slang connotation, which is against school policy.

The phrasing allows for respondents of all sex attraction constellations to answer the question without excluding the potential partner connotation of the original version yet remaining semantically similar to the original phrasing ("I have difficulty talking to attractive persons of the opposite sex"; see Discussion below).

It also notes the use of the phrase "gerbil of a thing" to describe the minister had extremely ugly connotations.